A client living in a beachfront community is seeking help with an extreme fear of bridges, which is interfering with daily functioning. A psychiatric nurse practitioner decides to try systematic desensitization.
Which explanation of this treatment should the nurse provide? 1. Using your imagination, we will attempt to achieve a state of relaxation.
2. Because anxiety and relaxation are mutually exclusive states, we can attempt to substitute a relaxation response for the anxiety response.
3. Through a series of increasingly anxiety-provoking steps, we will gradually increase your tolerance to anxiety.
4. In one intense session, you will be exposed to a maximum level of anxiety that you will learn to tolerate.
Question 2
Which is an example of an intentional tort?
1. A nurse fails to assess a client's obvious symptoms of neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
2. A nurse physically places an irritating client in four-point restraints.
3. A nurse makes a medication error and does not report the incident.
4. A nurse gives patient information to an unauthorized person.
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A hot stone placed under the client’s neck.
Client files are kept in alphabetical order in locked file cabinets.
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Position the client
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